Hi!
I'm trying to set selection from Saint-Saën's Oratorio de
Noël for my choir.
In the Gloria in altissimis (p9 in the IMSLP PDFs), I found an
odd combination of ties:
\relative c'''
{
<< {
s1 | b1
~ | b2 cis } \\
{
a1 ~ | a2 s2 |
s1 } \\
{ \voiceTwo r2 a, ~ | a <g'
g,>4 <fis fis,> | <g g,>1 }
>>
}
This peculiar mess is almost right; I just need to figure
out how to keep the b and a on the first beat of the second
measure from colliding -- but no combination of \shiftOxxx and
\once \override NoteColumn.force-hshift that I've tried has
answered the case. Leaving the \voiceTwo command out prevents
the collision -- but at the cost of getting many other things
wrong.
To match the 19th-century original, the b should be shifted
a notehead's width right.